This article throws some light on what the Bible and the Quran say about some hot women issues that demand some concerns; they are:
Who was the first sinner, Adam or Eve?
And the impact of Eve' sin that negatively affected every woman
A woman should learn in quietness
A woman is not allowed to be a teachers and
A woman is not permitted to have authority over a man
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In the Bible, Women are to walk in modesty, adorned with good works, and to learn in silence. A woman was forbidden to teach or to exercise authority over men; she was to abide in quietness and silence.
Saint Paul appoints women to learn in the public assemblies with silence and modesty, being dressed pleasantly, without any overindulgence or excess in their clothing.
Why, it is not lawful for women to teach in the congregation, because by this means they would be placed above men, for they would be their masters: and this is against Gods ordinance. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
Saint Paul proves this ordinance of God, by which the woman is subject to man, first because God made the woman after man, for, mans sake.
And Adam was not g deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
Then, because after her sin, the Lord God punished the woman, because she made Adam deceived by her, and therefore she is worthily for this reason subject to her husband, and ought to be.
As woman was last in the creation, which is one reason for her subjection, so she was first in the transgression.
However, the women' subjection does not hinder them from being saved; they will be saved through childbearing; if they behave themselves in those duties of marriage in a holy and modest manner; if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety and sanctification with sobriety. Good women may and ought to teach their children at home the principles of true religion.
In conclusion, Women who continue in sobriety, shall be saved in child-bearing
Herein, some question may arouse:
1) What if the woman is not married and has no childbearing, would not she be saved according to Saint Paul teachings?
2) What about women who have authority like the queens, princesses, prime-minister, ministers, bosses, supervisors, managers, chiefs etc. who disobeyed Saint Paul teachings, are they all sinners and will not she be saved according to Saint Paul teachings?
3) According to Saint Paul teachings, most if not all the Western women are sinners and would not be saved.
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The Quran
1) Adam erred first, Not Eve
Verses 20:115-122 of the Quran give the details of the story of Adam, Eve and Satan.
Verse 20: 121 says that Adam erred and disobeyed his lord by eating from the tree, and allowed himself to be seduced; so went astray.
2) In the Hereafter, male and female is Equal; any female shall be admitted into Paradise by her faith and righteous deeds regardless of a) childbearing, b) her color, c) her race, d) her location, etc.
This meaning is repeated many times in the Quran, as for example, in verses 4:124, 16:97, 40:40 etc.
Verse 4:124 says:
And whoever does, any, righteous deeds, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall be admitted into Paradise, and not be wronged, by as much as, the dint in a date-stone.
Verse 16:97 says:
Whoever acts righteously, whether male or female, and is a believer, him verily Allah shall revive with a goodly life. This is said to be life in Paradise.
And Allah shall surely pay them their reward according to the best of what they used to do.
Verse 40:40 says:
Whoever does an evil deed shall not be requited except with the like of it; but whoever acts righteously, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall be admitted into Paradise wherein they will be provided without any reckoning, an abundant provision is given to them unconditionally.
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The Bible,
1Timothy 2:11-15 (American Standard Version)
11) Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
12) But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
13) For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
14) And Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
15) But she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
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The Quran, Yusuf Ali Translation
Verse 4:124
If any do deeds of righteousness, - is they male or female - and have faith, they will enter heaven, and not the least injustice will be done to them.
Verse 16:97
Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has faith, verily, to him will we give a new life, a life that is good and pure and we will bestow on such their reward according to the best of their actions.
Verse 40:40
"He that works evil will not be requited but by the like thereof: and he that works a righteous deed - whether man or woman - and is a believer- such will enter the garden (of bliss): therein will they have abundance without measure.
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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:
Are the Scholars truthful when they claim that the Quran quoted from the Bible?
